Meanings
adjectivemope-eyed (comparative more mope-eyed, superlative most mope-eyed)
comparative more mope-eyed · superlative most mope-eyed
- archaicshort-sighted
What a mope-eyed ass was I, I could not know her!
c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals)1 more example
Don't grope around in the dark like the foolish, mope-eyed man - playing “blind man's-buff”, as it were, with your business interests
1891, “advert for Portland Oregonian”, in Printers' InkSynonyms: purblind
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adjectiveshort-sighted
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